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Comment Re:What? No encrypted IPs? (Score 1) 94

Assuming the admin wasn't too lazy to set it up. :)

Assuming that the DNS for the IP address range is delegated to the admin first of all.

It's all very well setting up rDNS, but sometimes, the bureaucratic nightmare to get the range pointed at your DNS server is just not worth it.

Comment Re:The TOC's location is a soft secret (Score 2) 79

What are you talking about datacentres for?

In a skyscraper in London's Canary Wharf financial district, Olympic organizers opened a Technology Operations Center (TOC) last month and that act as mission control for monitoring the health of Olympic IT systems. The TOC's location is a soft secret, and organizers did not want its exact location to be published for security reasons.

Comment Re:The Last Straw (Score 1) 284

If only Gentoo had a stable version. By that, I mean something that you could leave for 3 years, only applying GLSAs, and then, when you wanted to install something new, you wouldn't be fucked because there was a new version of Portage, that needed a new version of Python, that wouldn't install for a myriad of other reasons.
The general consensus is that you have to keep bringing it up to date with all the latest ebuilds every night. And that's a pain.

I still really like Gentoo though. Especially Hardened Gentoo. If you want a very tough server, that's what you need.

Comment Re:And In Other News (Score 1) 95

I care. I liked the author's suggestion of creating a Dummy Account, just so you can view yourself and see what's visible to strangers. Ideally nothing but your name, but who knows for sure? What exactly is visible to Google, Bing, and other search engines? I'd like to know.

Why not let some strangers know your ID? And let them tell you? Maybe on some sort of forum. Such as Slashdot...?

Slashdot: The place where strangers exchange Facebook accounts to "nmap" their Facebook details.

Comment Re:Only a few left.... (Score 1) 426

I think most of the world works on 240/50. It would make travelling, a lot easier. Different plugs, sure that's easy, and adapters are small, but to have to bring converters with you, that's a pain. Although I have just looked up which countries use what, and actually it's not quite such a clearcut divider as metric/imperial.

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